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Mikael Cho
Coffee and Power — The best coffee shops for working. Wi-Fi passwords included.
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Ryan Hoover
Workfrom by @darrenbuckner is another slick site for finding coffee shops to work from.
David Spinks
Oh weird I thought this was going to be Philip Rosedale's Coffee and Power. I guess that shut down? Anyway, this is awesome. I work out of coffee shops all the time. I have a few good ones to add here in NYC and SF.
Mikael Cho
Thanks @darrenbuckner! Ya, Workfrom looks great man. Saw you're from Portland. Would love to grab coffee if I make it there. I guess we'll know where to go :)
Darren Buckner
@mikaelcho 100%. I'd love to grab coffee as well.
Mikael Cho
My number 1 search when I'm in a new city is good coffee shops to work from with solid Wi-Fi and plugs. I know there's a few sites that exist that help with this but my problem was making it easy to see while I was on the go. Oftentimes, I would just have my phone and needed to find the closest place around me. So what we did with this project is connect each city to a Foursquare list that can be saved on your phone and seen when you open Foursquare's app. We created collections for 10 of the biggest cities in North America and London in the UK. 100 coffee shops total with Wi-Fi passwords and plug locations. If you don't have Foursquare, we added a Google Map that uses your location data to spot what's closest to you. Our goal was to find enough coffee shops so you could move from coffee shop to coffee shop on foot. Hope this helps if you're traveling and looking to get some work done :) More on backstory for why we built this here: http://backstage.pickcrew.com/co... Feel free to recommend a coffee shop here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/...
Wilson J Pan
@mikaelcho I was thinking about creating something similar. What's are the other services that exist?
Peter Enestrom
@mikaelcho The lists are no longer working!?
Eric Posen
Add a way to filter by free parking and I'm sold.
Mikael Cho
@goeric Nice point Eric. I'll add this to our list to chat about.
Stephanie Luff
@goeric I second this! My biggest issue with finding the right coffee shop is no parking or having to pay for meters.
Taylor Crane
Beautifully executed MVP, love that it points to Foursquare lists :)
Mikael Cho
@taykcrane Thanks Taylor :) Ya, we were thinking of maybe doing something for mobile but Foursquare did what we needed to make it work more or less the way we wanted it to.
Darren Buckner
Nice work! I'd love to have your recommendations added to Workfrom as well. You're clearly part of the family :) https://workfrom.co/add and darren@workfrom.co if I can be helpful!
Eric Anderson
Awesome stuff guys. I noticed Calgary, AB wasn't on there. After living in San Francisco for a bit, I realize I under appreciated the number of great cafes to work from in the city. Although, a lot of them are new or new-ish, the city is changing rapidly as it's been growing quite fast. I submitted a whole bunch to you guys, a couple of the shops have multiple locations as well.
samtitle
Gentlemen: It seems there's a bunch of us who believe in the "working from coffee shops" culture. Rightfully so! Happy to get in on the collective action with www.TheCoffice.biz. Hit me up @TheCoffice. (It's powered by Sam.)
Ian
There likely won't be anywhere within a few hours of me anytime soon, so can I add to the list myself? I am in Royal Leamington Spa which is an affluent area with lots of places like those listed, but it's far from any big city. It would also be good if the wifi could be stated as either fast, ok, or slow.
Stef Chan
Love this. Glad there is a "suggest to unlock" feature at the bottom.
Richart Ruddie
This is great! Thank you Mikael
Masha Maksimava
Such a neat idea. Will definitely be using it for my next business trip :)
Elyes Ben Mrad
Awesome Job! We have been inspired by this and we decided to create an app that does even more ! Our app is called Crema App here is the link : https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/... We are live in 6 different cities : Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Paris and Berlin ! We offer information like is there any wifi, you can order an Uber from the app, and know where are the closest coffee shops to you position. In the coming weeks we will be introducing the payment solution where you will be able to pay for your favourite daily cup of java ! Made in Montreal with a lot of coffee love !
Jane Caris
very impressive app I used it and this was just mazing you can see some of my projects here on electric tea kettles website.
John Collin
Very beautiful
Namita Dalal
Nice
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